Google Workspace Updates: Google Classroom

Adding new capabilities to student groups in Google Classroom

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Update

[May 7, 2025] We have rolled this feature back while we evaluate performance and quality. We will provide an update with new rollout information for Rapid & Scheduled Release domains when possible.

What’s changingLast year, we introduced student groups in Google Classroom, a feature that enables teachers to create groups of students to make assigning differentiated content easier. As a result of this update, teachers can differentiate content across sub-sections of their class based on their students' needs. For example, teachers can create groups based on different reading levels and as their class adapts, they can edit members of a group or delete groups within their class.

Today, we’re excited to announce improvements to student groups that enable teachers to:

Email groups, which is especially useful when educators want to communicate with a sub-section of their class.
Sort by groups when grading on the Student work page. This makes it easier to grade more efficiently and understand student performance based on groups.
Edit student groups when creating an assignment so that educators can quickly adapt instruction without having to go to the People page.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Group names and members are only visible to teachers or co-teachers, not students.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting up and using student groups in Google Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on TBD

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on

Resources

Google Help: Manage student groups

Introducing the ability to grade and assign grading labels in bulk in Google Classroom

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

What’s changingTo further improve grading options for teachers using grading systems in Google Classroom, we recently introduced the ability to perform bulk grading via ‘grade all’. With this new feature, teachers can quickly and efficiently grade all students' work on the Gradebook page by selecting ‘grade all’. They can also choose to override existing grades and automatically return them to students after grading.

Today, we’re excited to announce that teachers can now take bulk grading action on the Student work page in addition to the Gradebook. This update enables teachers to grade and assign grading labels in bulk, ultimately making grading more efficient and saving teachers time.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Once a teacher has set up grading, they can follow these steps to grade all:

Go to Google Classroom > Student Work Page > select multiple students > click the bulk actions menu and select the desired option

Visit the Help Center to learn more about grading & returning an assignment.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 16, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Introducing silent reading mode in Google Classroom’s Read Along

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

What’s changing In addition to the recent announcement of educators being able to upload content to Read Along in Google Classroom, we’re excited to introduce a new feature that allows students to read a book in silent reading mode.

Prior to today, students could only read aloud and unlike the default reading mode, silent reading mode will allow students to read a book silently without having to draw attention to themselves or disturbing their classmates. In addition to giving teachers more flexibility in how they use Read Along, this new reading mode is particularly useful in scenarios where multiple students might be working on a reading assignment in the same space. With less noise and fewer distractions, students can still build independent reading skills and will continue to:

Receive assistance from the AI reading buddy when needed by clicking on any unknown words
Be presented with questions to help with their reading comprehension
Receive stars when they read with few errors or assistance and answer questions correctly

Additional details When using silent reading mode, teachers will not be provided with a student's reading performance related to accuracy, words per minute, or phonics. The teacher will receive reading performance insights related to comprehension.

Getting started

Admins:

End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about Read Along in Google Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on

Resources

Google Classroom is expanding to 7 additional languages

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

What’s changingLast month, we announced the ability to use the Google Classroom mobile app in additional languages, and today we’re excited to announce the same languages are also now available with the web experience:

Afrikaans
Assamese
Estonian
French Canadian
Icelandic
Kazakh
Swahili

Additional details Certain Google Classroom features might not be accessible in all languages, including Read Along in Classroom, Practice sets, Originality reports and Gemini in Classroom
Getting started

Admins and end users:

The language in Classroom is based on a user's language settings for their Google account.
Visit the Help Center to learn more about getting started with Google Workspace for Education and supported languages for Google Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 15, 2025

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on, Endpoint Education add-on
Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on

Resources

Use Gemini in Google Classroom to generate questions or a quiz based on specific text

Monday, April 14, 2025

What’s changing Earlier this year, we introduced the ability to generate vocabulary lists with the help of Gemini in Google Classroom. Today, we’re adding a text-dependent question generation tool to further our efforts for AI to help educators save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire creativity.
Educators can select a Google Drive file or manually input text, select which skills they want students to demonstrate, then generate questions to assess grade-specific comprehension and critical reasoning skills of students. Once generated, educators can then export the questions to a Google Form or Google Doc to assign to students. This new option can be particularly useful in a variety of scenarios, such as creating an exit ticket or a quiz to check students’ understanding.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

AvailabilityAvailable for Google Workspace for Education customers with these add-ons:

Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Gemini for Google Workspace add-ons
Google Workspace Updates Blog: Introducing Gemini offerings for Google Workspace for Education customers
Google Help: Gemini in Classroom

Create and manage grading periods using the Google Classroom API

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

What’s changing Last year, we introduced the availability of grading periods endpoints as part of the Google Classroom API through the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of this feature, which will enable developers to:

Who’s impacted

Developers

Why you’d use it The new grading periods endpoints allow developers to create, modify, and read grading periods in Classroom on behalf of administrators and teachers.

Getting started

Application developers can use the Classroom API to integrate their apps with Classroom. These apps need to use OAuth 2.0 to request permission to view classes and rosters from teachers. Admins can restrict whether teachers and students in their ___domain can authorize apps to access their Google Classroom data.
All API and Classroom share button integrations should follow the Classroom brand guidelines.

Rollout pace

This feature is available now.

Availability

A Google Workspace for Education Plus license is required to access this feature for both education leaders and educators. Learn more about licensing requirements.

Resources

Educators can now upload content to Read Along in Google Classroom

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

What’s changingIn addition to the recent Read Along in Google Classroom feature that provides educators with more visibility into student performance, we’re excited to give them the ability to upload their own content into Read Along as part of the assignment creation process.
Whether there’s a desire to include ___location-specific content that's rich in local history and culture or provide materials aligned with geo-specific curriculum, this highly-requested feature expands Read Along’s current library by empowering educators to add content that addresses learners' needs.

Getting started

Admins:

Existing Workspace Customers (those who signed up for Workspace for Education before July 7, 2024): Read Along in Classroom will be available to all Google Workspace for Education customers as a service that will be covered under the Workspace for Education Terms of Service. You can enable Read Along in the Admin Console for users in your ___domain to access this service. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Read Along on or off for users.
For new Workspace Customers (those who sign up for Workspace for Education on or after July 7, 2024): Read Along will be automatically enabled in the console, and all eligible users will have direct access to it. Visit the Help Center to learn how to turn Google Read Along on or off for users.

End users: This capability will be available in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Visit the Help Center to learn more about adding content to Read Along in Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on April 9, 2025

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn Google Read Along on or off for users
Google Help: Read Along in Google Classroom
Google Help: Add content to Read Along in Classroom

Use the Google Classroom Mobile App in additional languages

Monday, March 24, 2025

What’s changingWe’re excited to announce that we’re expanding the language availability for the Google Classroom mobile app on Android and iOS to the following languages:

Afrikaans
Assamese
French Canadian
Icelandic
Kazakh
Swahili

Additional details

The languages above will be available on the web version of Google Classroom in the coming weeks. We will provide an update on the Workspace Updates Blog when this feature becomes generally available.

Getting started

Admins and end users:

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on March 24, 2025

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, and the Teaching and Learning add-on, Endpoint Education add-on
Customers with the Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium add-on

Resources

Expanding data regions coverage to Google Classroom

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

What’s changing Data regions for Google Workspace allows customers to choose a specific geographic ___location—in the U.S., in Europe, or globally distributed—for their covered data at rest to help meet organizational or compliance needs.

We previously added data regions coverage to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and today, we’re extending data region coverage to primary user data for Google Classroom for the U.S. and E.U. data regions.

By expanding data regions coverage to Google Classroom user indices, we hope to better support our customers’ data ___location preferences and give them greater control.

Getting started

Admins: Visit the Help Center to learn how to choose a geographic ___location for your data and about data covered by data regions.

Note: If Data Regions is already enabled for your organization, no additional action is required from you to enable the Google Classroom feature.

End users: No end user impact.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Standard and Plus

Resources

See phonics-based performance insights for decodable books in Google Classroom

Thursday, January 16, 2025

What’s changingLast year, we introduced Read Along in Google Classroom, a new feature that helps students build their independent reading skills by enabling teachers to assign differentiated reading content, based on Lexile® measure, grade level, or phonics skills.

Read Along in Classroom includes access to a growing library of decodable books from Heggerty that educators can assign to practice specific decoding skills. To improve upon the current analytics dashboard experience and provide teachers with phonics-based performance insights for decodable books, we’re adding a new analysis section.

With this update, teachers will see details about how a student or class is performing on the individual phonics skills listed in a decodable book and words that need practice.

Getting started

Admins:

Existing Workspace Customers (those who signed up for Workspace for Education before July 7, 2024): Read Along in Classroom will be available to all Google Workspace for Education customers as a service that will be covered under the Workspace for Education Terms of Service. You can enable Read Along in the Admin Console for users in your ___domain to access this service. Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning Read Along on or off for users.
For new Workspace Customers (those who sign up for Workspace for Education on or after July 7, 2024): Read Along will be automatically enabled in the console, and all eligible users will have direct access to it. Visit the Help Center to learn how to turn Google Read Along on or off for users.

End users: The phonics analysis dashboard will only appear for newly created decodable book assignments. This can be accessed by clicking on the assignment name in the “Grades” section of Google Classroom. Existing assignments will keep on showing the data as earlier. Visit the Help Center to learn more about Read Along in Google Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Available now.

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching and Learning add-on

Resources

Introducing the ability to ‘grade all’ in Google Classroom

Monday, January 13, 2025

What’s changing In 2023, we expanded grading systems in Google Classroom and in 2024 we added a 'missing' grade state to Gradebook. To further improve upon grading options for teachers and give them the ability to perform bulk grading, we’re introducing ‘grade all’.
With this new feature, teachers can quickly and efficiently grade all students' work on the Gradebook page by selecting ‘grade all’. They can also choose to override existing grades and automatically return them to students after grading.
Not only does this update save time by eliminating the need to enter each student’s grade one-by-one, but it also provides a solution to grading assignments based on completion rather than accuracy (such as exit tickets, due nows, classwork, etc.) where the grade is binary (‘0’ or ‘100’).

Who’s impacted End users

Why it matters‘Grade all’ enables teachers to score faster and save time, ultimately making grading more efficient.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Once a teacher has set up grading, they can follow these steps to grade all:

Go to Google Classroom > Gradebook > In the 3 dot menu for an assignment click “Grade all” > In the dialog that opens, input the bulk grade

[Optional] Select “Override existing grades” to override existing grades with the new bulk grade
[Optional] Select “Automatically return after grading” to return all grades after submitting the new bulk grade.

Visit the Help Center to learn more about grading & returning an assignment.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on January 13, 2025

Availability

Available to all Google Workspace customers, Workspace Individual Subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts

Resources

Generate vocabulary lists using Gemini in Google Classroom

Monday, January 13, 2025

What’s changing Since May of last year, education institutions have been leveraging new and powerful ways of working, teaching and learning with Gemini for Google Workspace. This includes products and features such as the Gemini app, Gemini Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI™), Gemini in Google Vids and Gemini in Classroom.
In continuing our efforts to ensure AI helps educators save time, create captivating learning experiences, and inspire creativity, we’re introducing a new way to generate vocabulary lists with the help of Gemini.
Starting today, educators can generate custom word lists that are tailored to specific grade levels and topics identified by the educator. Specifically, the list will provide the word’s grammatical category, a clear definition, and a relevant example sentence to help students understand and use the vocabulary effectively. This functionality is accessible via the “Gemini Education” tab in Google Classroom.

creating a vocab list using gemini in classroom

Who’s impacted Admins and end users

Why it’s important This update helps educators create vocabulary lists tailored to specific grade levels and topics while simultaneously empowering students to master vocabulary and deepen their understanding of language – all right within Google Classroom.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on January 13, 2025

Availability Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:

Gemini Education and Education Premium

Resources

Create and manage rubrics using the Google Classroom API

Monday, December 9, 2024

What’s changing The Google Classroom API enables third-party developers to manage classes, rosters, invitations and more in Google Classroom. Since 2019, teachers have been able to create or reuse a rubric for an assignment, however this capability did not previously exist in the Classroom API. To improve upon this experience, we’re excited to announce that developers can now manage assignment rubrics via the Classroom API.
More specifically, developers can read and write rubrics using the API, and also see student submission scores broken down by the corresponding rubric criteria, rather than just accessing the total score, enabling deeper insights into student performance.

Create and manage rubrics using the Google Classroom API

Who’s impactedAdmins and developers

Why it’s important This update enables developers to create and manage rubrics on behalf of teachers at scale, and retrieve rubric-based grades to support more holistic student performance insights.

Getting started

Rollout pace

Available now.

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus

Resources

Google Classroom now supports exporting missing and excused grades to select Student Information Systems (SIS)

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

What’s changingLast year, we introduced the ability for teachers to mark an assignment for a particular student as “excused” instead of giving it a 0-100 score. We also added the ability to manually mark an assignment as “missing” or “complete” and automatically add a default draft score.
These updates give teachers even more flexibility when it comes to grading for assignments and classwork, and today we’re excited to announce that teachers can include missing and excused grades when exporting grades to their Student Information Systems (SIS).

Getting started

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Full rollout (1–3 days for feature visibility) starting on October 29, 2024

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources

Kickstart ideas, brainstorm activities, and differentiate content with the help of Gemini in Google Classroom

Monday, September 23, 2024

What’s changingEarlier this year, we introduced the Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium add-ons to give education customers new and powerful ways of working, teaching and learning with Gemini for Google Workspace. We also piloted Gemini in Google Classroom with new lesson planning features that are informed by LearnLM, our new family of models fine-tuned for learning, based on Gemini and grounded in educational research.

Today, we’re excited to officially introduce a new Gemini Education tab in Classroom that grants quick access to the following AI tools:

Outline a lesson plan: Use a scaffolded experience to generate lesson plan ideas based on what you’d like students to be able to demonstrate
Craft a compelling hook: Spark curiosity and engage your students with a compelling start for your class
Generate a quiz: Generate a quiz and export to Forms based on target grade level, length, and the types of questions you want to include
Re-level text: Generate a new version of your text based on target grade level

We are working closely with schools and educators globally to develop additional helpful tools. If you’re interested in joining the pilot program, learn more here.

Who’s impacted Admins and end users

Why it’s important Gemini in Google Classroom provides educators with a suite of generative AI tools that can generate new and unique content and make learning more personal and engaging for students.

Additional details Gemini in Classroom is only available in English for education users over the age of 18.

Getting started

Admins: Learn more about available pricing and discounts for the Gemini Education add-ons or contact your existing Google Workspace for Education reseller or a Google for Education sales specialist.

Note that Education customers who have already purchased Gemini Enterprise will have the choice to transition to either Gemini Education or Gemini Education Premium.

End users:

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on September 23, 2024

Availability

Available for Google Workspace customers with these add-ons:

Gemini Education and Education Premium

Resources

Introducing Student Groups in Google Classroom

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

What’s changing We’re excited to introduce a new feature in Google Classroom that enables teachers to create groups of students to make assigning differentiated content easier. This update will allow them to quickly assign classwork to pre-defined sets of students without having to tediously select individual students.

Now, teachers can differentiate content across sub-sections of their class based on their students' needs. For example, teachers can create groups based on reading levels and as their class adapts, they can edit members of a group or delete groups within their class.

Who’s impacted End users

Why you’d use it Groups in Classroom will help teachers organize, manage and understand performance in their class.

Additional details Group names and members are only visible to teachers or co-teachers, not students.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users: Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting up and using student groups in Google Classroom.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 20, 2024

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus and the Teaching & Learning Upgrade

Resources

Google Help: Manage student groups

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - August 9, 2024

Friday, August 9, 2024

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both Rapid and Scheduled Release at the same time. If not, each stage of rollout should take no more than 15 business days to complete.
Appointment slots booking pages are no longer available in Google Calendar Earlier this year, we announced that the appointment slots feature will be replaced by appointment schedules in Google Calendar. Starting this week, appointment slots booking pages will no longer be available and all new appointments will need to be booked through appointment schedules. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is scheduled to complete by the end of August 2024. | Appointment schedules are available to Google Workspace Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade, Nonprofits, Google Workspace Individual, Google One Premium users and users with personal Google accounts. | Visit the Help Center for detailed information about appointment schedules.
Dark mode now available in Google Classroom on mobile Similar to the recent announcement of dark mode in Google Drive, users will now be able to change the color theme of Google Classroom on their mobile device. This new setting aims to provide users with a more comfortable, customizable viewing experience and also reduces battery usage. | Available to Google Workspace Education Fundamentals, Standard, Plus, the Teaching & Learning Upgrade customers. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Visit the Help Center to learn more about using Dark Mode in Classroom.

New automation event for AppSheet databases is now generally available We’re excited to announce the general availability of AppSheet database automation events, allowing users to kick off automation workflows based on changes made directly in their AppSheet database. | Available to AppSheet Free, AppSheet Core and AppSheet Enterprise Plus. Google Workspace editions that include AppSheet Core can be viewed here. | Rollout to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains is complete. | Visit the AppSheet community to learn more about this feature and check out the Help Center to get instructions for building your first automation using an AppSheet database.

Previous announcements

The announcements below were published on the Workspace Updates blog earlier this week. Please refer to the original blog posts for complete details.

Available in open beta: configure third-party apps by select API scopes

We’re giving admins another layer of granular control for third-party apps. Specifically, you can now configure apps to be limited by selected OAuth 2.0 Scopes for Google APIs, such as Drive or Gmail scopes. | Learn more about the beta to configure third-party apps by select API scopes.

Providing student engagement signals for Google Drive file attachments in Google Classroom

We’re introducing a new feature that surfaces richer student engagement data on assignments with Google Drive attachments in Google Classroom. With this update, teachers will have easily accessible visibility into whether students have made progress on assignments with Drive attachments through pre-existing workflows in Classroom. | Learn more about Drive file attachments in Classroom.

“Take notes for me” in Google Meet is rolling out soon; pre-configure access with a new admin setting

“Take notes for me,” an AI-powered feature in Google Meet that automatically takes notes during your meetings, will be rolling out soon. Prior to end user availability, admins can now configure whether their users can use this Google AI note-taking feature with a new Admin console setting. | Learn more about the admin setting for “Take notes for me.”

Completed rollouts

The features below completed their rollouts to Rapid Release domains, Scheduled Release domains, or both. Please refer to the original blog posts for additional details.

Rapid Release Domains:

Scheduled Release Domains:

All new appointments need to be booked through appointment schedules in Google Calendar (Disabling the creation of appointment slots)
Import and export Markdown in Google Docs

Rapid and Scheduled Release Domains:

For a recap of announcements in the past six months, check out What’s new in Google Workspace (recent releases).

Providing student engagement signals for Google Drive file attachments in Google Classroom

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

What’s changingWe’re introducing a new feature that surfaces richer student engagement data on assignments with Google Drive attachments in Google Classroom.
With this update, teachers will have easily accessible visibility into whether students have made progress on assignments with Drive attachments through pre-existing workflows in Classroom. This can help to identify students who may need additional support and make more informed decisions about how to assist their students.
Specifically, teachers can see:

From the Classwork page: The number of students who haven’t edited attachments for assignments.
From the student work page on individual assignments: When the attachments were last edited by each student.

With this information, teachers can:

Who’s impacted End users

Why you’d use it This feature gives teachers visibility into student progress on academic work and helps them provide effective interventions to best support students.

Additional detailsThe feature is currently only available on assignments with Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings attachments.

Getting started

Admins: There is no admin control for this feature.
End users:

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 7, 2024, with expected completion by end of August, 2024.

Availability

A Google Workspace for Education Plus license is required to access this feature for educators. Learn more about assigning licenses in the Help Center.

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Turn a service on or off for Google Workspace users
Google Help: View student engagement on assignments with Drive attachments

Admins can now centrally set default grading settings for teachers in their district

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

What’s changingClassroom admins can now centrally set default grading settings for teachers in their district using the Admin console. When a teacher creates a new class in Classroom, these default settings are automatically populated for the class.
Starting today, admins can set default settings for grading periods and later this month, they will be able to set default settings for grading categories and grading scales.
With this new capability, admins can make it easier for teachers to set up and maintain their classrooms, saving them time since they won’t have to input grading settings for new classes they create. This will also ensure more consistency in grading settings for classes in a district.
Getting started

Admins:

This feature will be OFF by default and can be enabled at the OU level by going to the Admin console > Apps > Google Workspace > Classroom > Default grade settings.

Note: If any of the central settings need to be changed or deleted, you can do so in the Admin console as outlined above. However, any changes made to default settings will only apply to new classes going forward and not existing ones.

Visit the Help Center to learn more about setting default grading settings for teachers in your districts.

End users:

When a teacher creates a new class in Google Classroom, the settings defined by admins are automatically populated for the class. Teachers can still edit or delete these settings for their classes if they choose.

Note: Any changes made by teachers will be specific to that class only and will not propagate back to the Admin console.

Rollout pace Grading Periods

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 31, 2024

Grading Categories

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 7, 2024

Grading Scales

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on August 15, 2024

Availability Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus

Resources

Google Help: Set default grading settings for teachers in your districts

Enable guardians to preview assigned classwork within Google Classroom

Friday, July 19, 2024

What’s changing Currently, a teacher or school administrator can invite a guardian, typically a parent, to receive email summaries about their student’s work in class. These email summaries include a rundown of missing work, upcoming work and class activities, such as recently posted announcements or assignments in Google Classroom.
Going forward, guardian email summaries will now include links that let guardians preview their student's Classwork pages, including assigned work and attachments provided by the teacher. With this update, guardians can stay up-to-date with what their students are learning. Guardians will not be able to see their student’s grades or submissions, class communication, or other students’ work. Guardians can easily access this page directly from the Classroom email summaries or from the link shared by teachers.

Enable guardians to preview assigned classwork within Google Classroom

Who’s impacted Admins and end users

Why it matters This feature keeps guardians informed about their student’s assignments in class.

Additional details Teachers with the Google Workspace Education Plus edition who already send guardian email summaries will notice those emails automatically start including guardian previewing links. No action is needed to get started.

Getting started

Admins: Admins can turn Guardian Access ON or OFF for their ___domain and determine whether only admins, or admins and verified teachers, can control guardians accounts and per-class access. If admins choose the latter, verified teachers are able to add or remove guardian accounts for students in their class and determine whether each class will be available for guardian access. Visit the Help Center to learn more about managing guardians in your ___domain.
End users: In classes where you have guardian summaries turned ON, guardians can now preview your classwork page and any classwork assigned to their student(s). You can turn this setting OFF at any time in your Class Settings page.
Guardians: You have guardian preview capabilities to your student’s Classwork page through direct links in the email summary. Visit the Help Cenet to learn more about guardian email summaries.

Rollout pace

Rapid Release and Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 19, 2024

Availability

Available for Google Workspace:

Education Plus

Resources

Google Workspace Admin Help: Verify teachers and set permissions
Google Workspace Admin Help: Manage guardians in your ___domain
Google Help: Manage class details and settings
Google Help: Guardian email summaries FAQ
Google Help: About guardian email summaries
Google Help: Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

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Updates

Adding new capabilities to student groups in Google Classroom

Introducing the ability to grade and assign grading labels in bulk in Google Classroom

Introducing silent reading mode in Google Classroom’s Read Along

Google Classroom is expanding to 7 additional languages

Use Gemini in Google Classroom to generate questions or a quiz based on specific text

Create and manage grading periods using the Google Classroom API

Educators can now upload content to Read Along in Google Classroom

Use the Google Classroom Mobile App in additional languages

Expanding data regions coverage to Google Classroom

See phonics-based performance insights for decodable books in Google Classroom

Introducing the ability to ‘grade all’ in Google Classroom

Generate vocabulary lists using Gemini in Google Classroom

Create and manage rubrics using the Google Classroom API

Google Classroom now supports exporting missing and excused grades to select Student Information Systems (SIS)

Kickstart ideas, brainstorm activities, and differentiate content with the help of Gemini in Google Classroom

Introducing Student Groups in Google Classroom

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap - August 9, 2024

Providing student engagement signals for Google Drive file attachments in Google Classroom

Admins can now centrally set default grading settings for teachers in their district

Enable guardians to preview assigned classwork within Google Classroom

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